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Posts Tagged ‘mr-uptime’

Mr. Uptime for Firefox 3.5 released

For those of you who use our Mr. Uptime Firefox extension, we just wanted to let you know that we have updated it for Firefox 3.5.

The update was submitted to Mozilla last Friday and is pending approval, but you can already download it directly from the Mr. Uptime website. (It’s free, as it always has been.)

For those of you who don’t know what Mr. Uptime is, it’s a Firefox extension from us here at Pingdom that will tell you when a broken website is working again.

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Mr Uptime now available for Firefox 3

As Lifehacker noted yesterday, Mr Uptime is now (finally) available for Firefox 3. Mr Uptime for Firefox 2 proved to be highly popular, and we have received a lot of requests for an updated version for Firefox 3, so here it is!

For those of you not familiar with Mr Uptime, it’s a Firefox extension (from us here at Pingdom) that will make sure you don’t miss cool content online just because a website is temporarily down.

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Apple Store down: How to easily know when it’s back

During yesterday’s keynote Apple presented new iPods that got all Apple fans excited, including us. New versions of Shuffle, Nano and Classic and the totally new iPod Touch which is basically the iPhone without the phone part. As always when Apple introduces new products they take down their online Apple Store while they do the [...]

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Firefox campaign converted IE users?

Congratulations to the 1,000 Firefox users who managed to land themselves a whole year of Pingdom uptime monitoring for free in our campaign last week. (Yes, all 1,000 accounts disappeared like butter in sunshine.) Interestingly enough, when we analyzed our web server logs we noticed that 23 percent of the people that visited the Pingdom [...]

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The making of Mr Uptime

This blog entry will let you in behind the scenes of how Mr Uptime was created, from idea to development, and how the idea was realized from start to finish in less than 200 man hours. The idea As with many ideas, the idea of Mr Uptime was born out of a problem. The problem [...]

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Mr Uptime certified 100% clean by Softpedia

Mr Uptime (Pingdom’s brand new Firefox extension) has been certified 100% clean by the popular software library and download service Softpedia, one of the top 500 sites in the world according to Alexa. From the Softpedia website: Softpedia guarantees that Mr Uptime is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, [...]

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Mr Uptime launch a total success

We released Mr Uptime, our new Firefox extension, to the public last Friday. Only three days ago, in other words, and the launch has already been a great success. Google tells the story – from 0 to 11,000 in 3 days. Before last Friday, doing a Google search for “Mr Uptime” would barely give you [...]

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